Brandon Aceto
speaker
2,197 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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Trump is not a free market guy, and everybody has understood this since about 1955, and farmers vote.
And the Senate is very, very biased towards rural areas.
Let's say, why do we have corn ethanol?
Are you saying there's a big farm out there?
Big farmer, there's a big farm.
Trump just went back in, and we do more corn ethanol now, which is, this is, anybody who wants industrial policy, my answer is corn ethanol.
Complete waste, doesn't save the climate, but boy, oh boy, they vote in Iowa.
Interesting.
Yeah, no, I always wonder about that, if it was actually necessary or not.
That's interesting.
I wonder how that would play out if we let the free market dudes thing there.
I always wondered if it was different than the rest of the industries.
No, there's almost no anti-free market argument you could make about food.
I mean, all the fancy arguments my fellow economists like to make.
Food, it's you plant stuff in the ground, you grow it, you sell it.
Sometimes prices are high, sometimes prices are low.
There's no failure of free market there.
Because you hear the things about them destroying a certain amount of crops or whatnot to keep the prices elevated, right?
Yep, that's what the government does.
So we pay artificially high prices.
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